Welcome To The Big Ten, Nebraska!
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 1, 2011 2:00 PM CDT
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Hey Nebraska. Iowa here. So, you ran yourself out of the Big XII and nearly blew it up in the process, all for the privilege of joining the Big Ten instead? We like that. Shows balls. Shows moxie. You're not afraid to make an omelet by breaking eggs on the faces of your inferiors.
That said, you're in an actual conference now, so a couple things that need to be addressed right quick.
Your coach is an ass. Bo Pelini's sniveling child routine and Carl Pelini's ignorant manchild routine both might fly in the Big XII, but around here, the closest we come to sideline shenanigans is Bret Bielema running up the score, which he does a lot and he'll probably do to you. You'll also notice he doesn't scream at his players in the process.
The Big Ten is going to break Taylor Martinez. Ask Denard Robinson and his litany of unfinished games how much fun it is being a ~200 pound mobile quarterback going against Big Ten defenses. T-Magic is going to look T-Ordinary or T-Injured by Week 10. Better have your T-Backup ready by then.
We will beat you. Glad to see Nebraska landed on its feet on the rivalry front after Colorado and Oklahoma, well, "fell through." We've even got a Thanksgiving Friday set up. So now we can start acknowledging one simple fact: in the last 10 years, Iowa has had a much better football program than Nebraska. It's not even close. The Hawkeyes would have beaten Nebraska in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. This wouldn't even be a rivalry if Nebraska had joined the Big 10 a decade ago, it'd be a bloodbath. It'd have been worse than what Texas did to you guys. Hell, you'd probably be lobbying to join some other conference again. That's what your football program does, right? Run from its problems? Mm-hmm.
So welcome. Glad you could make it 12 in the conference. Prepare to be Iowa's newest little brother. We have a lot of them around here.
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ooooooEEEEE
bringin’ some heat! I like this. Oh, and Omaha, twice the size of DesMoines, about the same fun-wise so get over your state. It’s not that great….at all.
Skol!
Now, now. Shit on the school, not on the town.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
I thought this was Nebraska-hate
I think the state comes w/ it…..like the people…..like the crabs…..like the Skrpes
Skol!
This is gonna be fun.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
Does anyone else feel the collective IQ of the Big Ten went down a peg?
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
They just made both conferences dumber.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 1, 2011 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions 9 recs
The "N" may stand for "knowledge"
but so do the “OU”, the “aTm”, and the longhorn?
by TiltingAtDrewTateWindmills on Jul 2, 2011 7:45 PM CDT up reply actions
It also went down a pig.
I’m not sure what this means, I guess I just wanted to associate pigs and Nebraska fans.
But that’s an insult to pigs, who give us scrapple and Iowa chops, so I apologize.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
You asked for it Jacobi...
5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!!!
/justabouteveryhuskerfan
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
12 = 10, therefore 8 = 10?
So now we can start acknowledging one simple fact: in the last 10 years, Iowa has had a much better football program than Nebraska. It’s not even close. The Hawkeyes would have beaten Nebraska in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
That's only 8 years.
If you’re going to make completely unwarranted statements, at least do the correct simple math.
We use the Brian Cook method of math here in the Big X
One in which 3/11 = 50%
but seriously, the fact that he doesnt mention that you would have beat us in 2000 and 2001 does not invalidate his point that over the previous decade Iowa was better than Nebraska. He never said that Iowa would win 10 in a row just that we were better over the previous 10 years.
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Jul 1, 2011 2:37 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
I guess this kind of math fail
is why the AAU kicked out Nebraska.
by Enoch on Jul 1, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
OH YA!!!! WELL...
…you’re probably right. Either way, the next 10 (err 8??) years should be fun and hateful!
GBR.
That avatar might be the most offensive image I've seen on this blog.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Jul 1, 2011 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions 13 recs
Minnesota and Nebraska?
Sooooo…incest and lutefisk?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
and what about the Nebraska side of that?
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
by J.Schnauzer on Jul 1, 2011 2:55 PM CDT up reply actions 7 recs
The "N" is for "Necrophilia"!
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Lutefisk and cornbread is the meal.
Incest is the dessert.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Incest?
Why did I turn this into a Game of Thrones chat?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
WELCOME TO THE BIG 10
YOU’RE COOL!
for now
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions
NO SPOILERS I'M NOT QUITE DONE WITH BOOK 1 DAMMIT
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Book Two Turns Up The Awesome
just sayin
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 3:36 PM CDT up reply actions
There's a pretty epic battle at the end of Book 2
That’s all I’m saying. I sincerely hope they do it justice on TV.
by Captain n Diet Coker on Jul 1, 2011 3:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I saw a preview of Book 5
Read a paragraph and said, “Nope. This is worth the wait.”
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions
200 pages into book 3
and I just started the series a little over a week ago.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
That's about where I am in the 3rd book too
I needed to take a little break after Book 2, and then until after the Season 1 of the show was over.
by Captain n Diet Coker on Jul 1, 2011 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I can't put them down.
I pretty much have started the next book the second I’ve finished the previous.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 5:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I wish the season finale hadn't introduced Mecha Gundam units, but so it goes.
/joking
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Yeah. What's up with the reverse vampires at the end of Book 1?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 5:13 PM CDT up reply actions
It was really inappropriate to steal Strawberry Shortcake for a romance arc.
Everybody who actually read the book knows that Tywin Lannister had his sordid affair with Pippi Longstockings.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
That was TYRION!
Tywin bedded Ramona Quimby (Age 8) in the book.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Poor Beezus.
She got stuck with Hodor.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Hodor!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 5:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Hodor, Hodor...HODOR!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 5:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, it was him or Septa Mordane.
And she’s just gross.*
*In my imagination, anyway.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Snape kills Dumbledore
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
I wish you wouldn't insult cornbread that way.
If anything, say candy corn or something. I hate candy corn, man. It’s not even real corn! What kind of crap is that?
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:21 PM CDT up reply actions
#teamtruecorn
jtothetweet
'The dignity and usage of the English language is not subordinate to statistics.'--717's own, ReadingRambler
Word
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Thank you!
I can’t stand candy corn either. Give me popcorn balls any day for Halloween corn related treats.
by Captain n Diet Coker on Jul 1, 2011 5:38 PM CDT up reply actions
I will not stand here and listen to the onslaught
of wrong-minded people insulting the glory that is candy corn.
#teamcandycorn
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
Candycorn isn’t my favorite, but it is very edible when it isn’t all stale and dried out.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Candycorn is an affront to both candy and corn.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
How dare you.
Candy corn is not only tasty, it’s durable and immediate. I’ll take a pound of those on a hiking trip long before I take an ear of corn. No muss, no fuss. And flavor? Oh my, the flavor! It’s like a double rainbow in my mouth.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions
You can have your vile little triangles of terror.
Just don’t be pushing them on the rest of us right-thinking people.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Ugh. You're probably a "typewriter' cob eater.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions
It's more efficient!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
#teamrotarymethod
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 1:05 AM CDT up reply actions
Is the double rainbow in your mouth
the shape and color of the puke arch that shoots out of your mouth after digesting candy corn? Thought so.
by Captain n Diet Coker on Jul 3, 2011 3:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Eat the same amount of corn and candy corn, I'll bet you puke on the corn first.
Well, maybe not. But still. Candy corn is and tastes like pure sugar. It’s portable Fun Dip. And anybody who doesn’t like Fun Dip is a Communist because Fun Dip is the best 4th of July treat ever.
And besides, you should know that while candy corn is pumped full of artificial colors, those things ain’t breaking down in our digestive tracts anytime soon so it would come out looking just the same as creamed corn. Which also is better than corn, BTW.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
And, while I'm being honest,
I think I almost like those little candycorn-like pumpkins even better.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 3:32 PM CDT up reply actions
The pumpkins lead to obesity. The corn is OK because it's smaller
Science fact.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:48 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well, I'm already there, so...
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 7:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Lutefisk and candy corn?
Good lord, I’m not a savage.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
"incest and lutefisk"
Isn’t that a Strawberry Alarm Clock song?
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 1, 2011 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
One Hit Wonders For The Win!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions
EVERY song by Strawberry Alarmclock is a hit, and I'll not listen to those who say otherwise!
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 1, 2011 3:58 PM CDT up reply actions
The “NM” stands for half-Naked Midgets on Cops.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Which is saying something
after you’ve read some of Chazz’s open-thread comments.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 4:19 PM CDT up reply actions
That's it.
You get:
overweight Alfonso Ribeiro with a bizarre sex toy.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
PHIL SHERIDAN WITH AN ODD HAT!
Also, a modified quote by Mr. Sheridan: “If I owned Hell and Nebraska I would rent out Nebraska and live in Hell.”
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions
James Bond with an Oddjob!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 5:32 PM CDT up reply actions
I mean really?!
"Sometimes the truth gets in the way of a good story" - KF
by The Bacon Explosion on Jul 2, 2011 7:21 AM CDT up reply actions
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that it tells us to "Nevermind" his opinions
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 1, 2011 7:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Ding Ding Ding
Bring out your Trolls!
"Sometimes the truth gets in the way of a good story" - KF
by The Bacon Explosion on Jul 1, 2011 2:32 PM CDT reply actions
It only took 30 minutes for the first one to show up.
"West Texas seems to be full of fake boobs providing a comfortable shade for well-developed pot bellies" - Lycurgus (06/24/2011)
by BStylin Hawkye on Jul 1, 2011 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Here is my collection
The one with the cowboy hat is my faaaaaavorite. I call him Foofy. Sometimes … I…
Oh, you were talking about something else.
Dammit! Where’s the edit button?
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Jul 1, 2011 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
Welcome! And, once again, thank you for Andre Woolridge
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 2:45 PM CDT reply actions
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Nowadays everybody wanna act like they got something to say but nothing comes out when they move their lips just a bunch of gibberish…mother fuckers wanna act like they forgot about ’Dre.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
I gotta' say, he was a good 'Dre.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions
"Better have your T-Backup ready by then."
That is some inspired shit-talking. I’m Rhoads-level proud to be a reader of this blog.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
I'd like to add
Better start identifying your T-interim coach.
Although we all know that’s Osborne.
by GaryDolphinSafeTuna on Jul 1, 2011 3:02 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Nebraska's reaction to Osborne coaching again:
by iowaChemE on Jul 1, 2011 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
I have much respect for Osborne, but he looks like death warmed over even more than JoePa.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Like Christian Peter, I, too, have much respect for Osborne.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:25 PM CDT up reply actions
What part of this looks warm?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:37 PM CDT up reply actions
That sexy glint in his eyes.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Is that the Nebraska-ized version of the old Orange Bowl logo?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 7:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Best yet! Best yet! Best yet!
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Big winner.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions
YES
The T-Ordinary and T-Injured line just killed me. This is full of epic win. Thank you Jacobi!
'They are who we thought they were!'
Husker child
“Pa, what are they doing to Tee?”
“It’s called ‘hitting’, son.”
“Why isn’t he getting up?”
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN
Gina.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 1, 2011 3:59 PM CDT reply actions
How the hell does one spell "Sha-nay-nay" correctly?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:37 AM CDT up reply actions
If they weren't so serious
And didn’t take everything literally this would be a much more interesting comment section. Nebraska fans read this and get irate, say something backwards and end the statement with “5 National Championships.” I swear, anyone who is IN or WAS IN the Big 12 is a humorless asshole. Then again, if I was in the Big 12 and my name wasn’t Texas I might be an asshole too.
If I'm Colorado I'm taking my bong to the coast and comparing kind buds with Cal and Oregon
And making more money in the process. How could they go wrong?
You went with weed
but I’m thinking a conference with California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado has an insane brewery line-up (oddly, Utah has better breweries than Arizona).
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 2, 2011 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Why was Tommie Frazier #15?
Because he couldn’t count to 16.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
Why is Tom Osborne a doctor?
Because the Nebraskans think doctor is French for “Go awesome football!”
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
Reminder that they literally elected him to fucking congress for more or less this reason
Because a guy who thought that Lawerence Phillips was just misunderstood and deserved a second chance after dragging a girl down some stairs is definitely someone you want making decisions for the country.
It's like the old saying goes
“No screaming while being dragged down a flight of stairs means yes.”
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 2, 2011 9:28 AM CDT up reply actions
Do you think it would have been different for Hayden
if he’d retired a few years earlier and ran in Iowa?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 2, 2011 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions
I think if Fry wanted a political career in Iowa he could have had one.
Even with his current timeframe and late career success.
But, I think he had bigger fish to worry about (the prostate cancer, and maybe actually enjoying some of life in retirement).
Osborne doesn’t have these same worries, because he appears to be an invincible ghoul.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions
My buddy has a Lawrence ...
Phillips Rams jersey. Worst decision ever, but high comedy when he busted it out a couple years ago. Probably while LP was in the pokey.
by GaryDolphinSafeTuna on Jul 2, 2011 12:18 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Why did Nebraska leave the AAU?
Because the AAU has not won a national championship recently and is thus unworthy of the attention of the great and powerful Nebraska.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:10 PM CDT reply actions 8 recs
I liked this.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah ok sure, that's a rec.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:43 PM CDT up reply actions
How do you tell the difference between an Ohio State fan and a Nebraska fan?
You can’t.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:10 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
False.
The Ohio State fan’s couch is on fire.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Not true.
Nebraska fans wear their sex toys on their heads.
Ohio State fans wear their sex toys around their necks.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Jul 1, 2011 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions 19 recs
The beads on the right used to be white.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 1, 2011 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
Awful, so, so, awfully true
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions
What makes you think those are Buckeyes?
We don’t poop like normal humans. We poop like deer.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Don't insult the honor of deer that way!
You people are like deer ticks; you don’t poop, you just sit around, bloated, unable to move.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 5:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I meant to compare the form and shape of deer droppings, not denigrate the deer.
Maybe bear droppings would be more accurate looking.
…this is getting too scatological even for my tastes. And I should know!*
*Blah blah cooler poopers blah blah blah
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Correction: You should know becUAUSE PENN STATE FANS THROW PISS BALLOONS AT OHIO STATE FANS WHENEVER THERE'S A GAME IN JOEPUD'S STADIUM
STATE PENN SUCX
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 5:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, it's on like Donkey Kong.
Just you wait.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
That's kind of what the deer at Valley Forge are like, bloated and immobile
They are the tamest fucking herd ever. 4 feet away from one today and it just fucking stared at me and then resumed grazing. WTF!?!? I could have clubbed it and had venison sausage for CW when we invade Happy Valley in October.
When was this?
When I was last in Valley Forge, the deer were immobile because they were starving to death because there were too many of them because the NPS wouldn’t allow any hunting at any time.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions
I think the keyword in my post was "today"
All I know is they are tame as shit. Maybe because they’re starving, maybe because they see so many people, maybe because they’re fat (I can’t really tell fat from skinny deer as long as they don’t have CWD).
I don't read very well.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 7, 2011 7:35 AM CDT up reply actions
WOO-HOO!! WE'RE GOING TO HAPPY VALLEY!!
I’m kind of excited.
My childhood dream is to meet the great and powerful ReadingRambler. Please say this dream will come to fruition. PLEASE!!
Not gonna happen this year.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 4, 2011 7:13 PM CDT up reply actions
BTW, that book about the guy from the Iron Brigade is checked out at my local library.
I’ll read some other stuff, then I’ll read it for you.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 4, 2011 7:24 PM CDT up reply actions
That last one is the worst picture in the entire world.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions
The Nebraska fan's is ribbed for her (or his) pleasure.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Got it
What about foam cheese? Foam cheesesteaks (I just found out about those)? Foam horses heads? Foam Herky heads?
It's only funny if you go way over the top with it.
If you are just wearing a foam Herky head or a foam corncob with a standard Iowa jersey, then it is pretty lame.
And whatever you do, don’t start wearing anal beads like the OSU fans.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 1:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I'm not a fan either.
I like the cheeseheads, because they’re the original wacky-foam-sportsfan-headwear-that -represents-something-about where-your-team-is-from hat. And even those are pretty goddamn dumb (but in a fun way).
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 2, 2011 9:31 AM CDT up reply actions
What he said
just please, please, please leave those dumb ass corn hats for the husker faithful. If you are ever tempted, just ask yourself “What would Larry the Cable Guy do?”. Then don’t do that.
Answer: He would put on the stupid corn hat.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
They wear two at a time
but you can only see one.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 2, 2011 11:36 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
This.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Tats..
and dealer plates?
"Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front-it's a powerful picture."
...Hayden Fry
by chuck longs mom on Jul 1, 2011 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions
A common misconception
But really it’s quite simple:
Ohio State fans: pedophiles
Nebraska fans: bestiality
Yeah, they did get fucked by the Longhorns quite often
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll post this here, too.
Dear Nebraska Fan,
Try winning a conference title game or a bowl game against Washington (well, since you’re a jNL fan, perhaps I should go back farther into your glorious history, how about you win a 2002 Independence Bowl against Ole Miss) before you tell us how to speak, please. Thanks!
Go Screw Yourselves.
From, the real corn-growers to the east, Iowa.
PS – You can have your Thanksgiving plate first, as long as we have dibs on the beer cooler out on the porch.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 4:15 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
#teamtruecorn
jtothetweet
'The dignity and usage of the English language is not subordinate to statistics.'--717's own, ReadingRambler
I will be using that on my twitter in the next few days.
And I will most likely forget to credit you, but just know that I am appreciative.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I already started it.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, then.
Thank you as well.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Holy fuck Chazz is on the Twitter?
SIGN ME UP, SON.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:45 PM CDT up reply actions
One of these days, I might let my Twitter and BHGP worlds collide.
But I’m not quite to that point yet.
I’ll let you know.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 5:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I understand.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 1, 2011 5:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm in the same boat...
I’ve tweet Jacobi a few times, but I fear for my “real identity” will come to light..
I'm a tweetin ...
You want to follow Rambler get into a fight with himself about Jaromir Jagr? It can’t be beat!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 7:07 PM CDT up reply actions
He's actually saner on Twitter.
He sticks more to the Civil war and those Southern traitors. There’s much less pot-stirring there.
That’s not his Twitter name, but it’s not my place to give it out w/o consent.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
If you want me to stop talking about Ohio State, then you should probably tell Ohio State to stop stirring the pot permanently. You know, by being evil and stuff.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not even talking about Ohio State.
You don’t create conversations like you do here or at BSD, which I don’t mind.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
That sounds like a complaint from Along the Olentangy.
Which somehow doesn’t surprise me.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions
?
It’s not a complaint.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
It's @717Rambler
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 8:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Wait just a minute
Are Amish even allowed to use Twitter?
Something smells fishy.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
Didn't Weird Al sing about that
The rest of you use Facebook and Twitter
While we don’t even have a flusher on the shitter
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
by HawKCP on Jul 1, 2011 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I haven't heard much of his stuff in the last 5 years,
but that’s gold, Jerry.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Someday, yes. Maybe in a few weeks.
Right now, I have about 5 followers, and it is an outlet for dumb jokes from me and, on my “writer’s block” days, I announce famous historic events/semi-famous birthdays/anniversary of famous deaths.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 8:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Ferentz's yield > Pelini's yield
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Jul 1, 2011 4:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Here is something I tweeted late last night:
Lots of battles on July 1 in history (El Alamein, Somme, San Juan Hill, Gettysburg). I wonder if people were too hot under the collar?
I guess this also applies to the Great Penn State Civil Blogwar of 2010, and the opening skirmish today of what will, no doubt, be a long conflict between Iowa and Nebraska.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
I thought you stopped over there the other day (yesterday?)
Basically, some former BlackShoeDiaries reader named Junny now runs (or contributes to?) a Pitt blog (or is it just SBNation Pittsburgh, I’m not sure). BSD also had some guys leave to start their own blog (Slow States?), and there are like at least two other PSU blogs as well.
Anyway, one of the BSD guys now (named Mike) took offense to something that Junny or one of his ilk wrote (and I’m not even sure if it was on a blog, it might have been on twitter). And Mike roasted Junny et al in a post. Part of this conflict was allegedly about some people dissing PSU football’s recent recruiting efforts (I guess they got commits from a couple guys who don’t have many or any stars according to Rivals or Scout). Rambler and others fanned the flames, and before you know it, people are bitching at each other.
I think Rambler said there might have been more events today, but I haven’t read anything over there today. Maybe I’ll catch up later tonight or tomorrow. Or maybe I won’t.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Ok
First of all, Junny contributes to a PSU blog called Linebacker-U, which is pretty good aside from him.
Second of all, none of the commenters from any PSU blog fanned the flames. The bloggers themselves fanned the flames. Mike, by apparently deciding to bring the insults upon his blog honor from Twitter to the forefront of his comment sections and throwing a glove in the front yard. Junny, by mocking Fugi’s trying to get a job. RUTS, by being passive-aggressive towards BSD for so long.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, you did post a bunch of pictures of tanks, cannons, etc.
And you came over here and told us about the argument.
I’m not ragging on you, but I’d say you weren’t far off from “fanning flames.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 5:22 PM CDT up reply actions
I wasn't fanning the flames.
I was having fun with posting pictures of Rommel sitting on a tank. I was bringing it to your attention so you share in the fun.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I mean, come on, do you think someone's going to become enraged by me being me?
“There’s that BASTARD Rambler posting pictures of Civil War mortars! I HATE that BASTARD!”
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 5:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, that's pretty much what I say to myself when I see your comments during wrestling season.
/obviously, I’m about 7/8 joking.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 5:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey, what's all this about Penn State?
This is about Nebraska hate! Feed our egos! Don’t you know we have 5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS?
Cliff notes
PSU fans hate each other more than they hate anyone else. This is manifested in debates over the program, but now most especially on Twitter where everyone takes pot shots at one another until one of the bloggers decided to bring it to his blog’s large viewing audience’s attention.
The first sentence is the most important one.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 1, 2011 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions
This appears to be all too true
PSU Blogwar 2011 is kind of sad, really. Makes me wish people still had real fights instead of catty internet insult fights. At least for the menfolk.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions
As a bystander, you are 99% less likely
to get accidentally shot or stabbed in an Internet fight you didn’t start, compared to a bar fight you didn’t start.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, and I don't get the rush as a bystander. I'm bored by their internetting.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 12:27 AM CDT up reply actions
You can drink beer either way, though.
But it is probably cheaper at home while on the computer.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 12:35 AM CDT up reply actions
1%? Wow. I must be unlucky then.
Next BHGTailgate I’ll show you my scars from drivebys on the information superhighway (god, that phrase seems dated, and kinda quaint).
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 4, 2011 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions
You probably got hit by that drive-by troll
Fake Pelini.
Does your scar look like “5 national titles”?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 3:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Why did you get it in Black & Gold?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 6:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, what other color do short buses come in?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 8:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I meant for Pelini to be on the short bus.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 8:58 PM CDT up reply actions
This has nothing to do with Nebraska,
but I thought it was fucking hilarious.
Where does Jon Gruden get his hallucinogenics?
http://deadspin.com/5817522/heres-jon-gruden-saying-weird-shit-to-terrelle-pryor
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
He hates bubble screens as much as Pryor hates amateurism.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Jul 1, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Taps arm. Finds vein. Injects BHGP. Melts into couch.
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Jul 1, 2011 8:56 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Not with all this flooding. You guys can be responsible for the cleanup.
Get your shit together with I29, too.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
It would actually be a pretty piece of land...
without the white trash littering the place.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, the Missouri will have it washed clean soon enough
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
-- I eat a lot of stuff -- WaterlooChazz
by Blackheartnopants on Jul 1, 2011 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
wreck'd
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 10:45 PM CDT up reply actions
DJK'd
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Jul 1, 2011 11:52 PM CDT up reply actions
I feel guilty rec'ing this but it must be done.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:44 PM CDT up reply actions
That is just cold
I’d be fine with ditching Carter Lake though. The damn thing is in Nebraska anyway.
Will they please paint the damn water tower?
by Counciltucky Fried Tigerhawk on Jul 2, 2011 12:18 AM CDT up reply actions
The Northwest Angle > Carter Lake
There, that’s the random Gopher fan’s contribution to this discussion.
by Midnight Rambler on Jul 2, 2011 8:15 AM CDT up reply actions
How did THAT happen?
weird
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Carter Lake happened because the Missouri River shifted course after the state boundaries were fixed.
by Midnight Rambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:16 AM CDT up reply actions
yes, knew that
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Your signature is literally 1800% longer than your post.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Interesting
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 9:04 AM CDT up reply actions
And the only way to get to it
is through Nebraska. There’s no bridge.
/Random Pottawattamie Co. knowledge
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
yep
But it’s not completely surrounded like lesotho in South Africa. They have a about a couple block-width stretch that goes from Carter Lake to the river, less than half a mile. Going from the downtown Omaha to Epply, you have to pass through a few blocks of “Carter Lake”. It’s weird.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
The Northwest Angle was a mapmaker's mistake.
The Borough of Manhattan, New York has its own Carter Lake; there is a small piece of the municipality of Manhattan (I forget the name) that is on the mainland of New York State because the (East? Hudson?) River likewise shifted its course, and a small piece of what had been Manhattan Island then became part of the mainland. The Borough of Manhattan kept control of this pocket of land, even though it was no longer part of the island.
Carter Lake likewise remained part of Iowa when the MIssouri River shifted to the east at that spot, creating a couple square miles of Iowa surrounded entirely on land by Nebraska, with the Missouri River on its new course bounding it on the east.
And that concludes today’s obscure history and geography lesson.
by Midnight Rambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Wow.
I had no idea Western Iowa had so many facts.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 2, 2011 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions
Look up "loess hills" sometime
They only exist in western Iowa and somewhere in China.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Yeah, every time I've ever talked about the Loess Hills I just get blank stares.
Of course that also happens when I mention that Iowa sits on (one of?) the world’s largest aquifer(s).
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 4, 2011 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I think I've heard that about the aquifer.
That’s why, at least in cities, most people think Iowa has tap-water that tastes pretty good.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 3:46 PM CDT up reply actions
And also why it gets muggy as fuck all summer, even (at least in my childhood memories) during a drought.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 4, 2011 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Anyone who thinks tapwater in Iowa tastes good hasn't spent much time in Iowa City.
Seriously, IC municipal water tastes like ass.
by Midnight Rambler on Jul 4, 2011 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Have you had it recently? They re-did the system a few years back. Though still not great, it's not as bad as it used to be.
I know that 10 (and more) years ago it literally tasted like ass. (I heard it was bottled at the source for WizFitz and later fed to The Potato.)
When I moved into Rienow I got my first water statement from the city, and the fecal matter exceeded the allowable limit by like 300%.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 4, 2011 6:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Every ounce of water in the state of Texas tastes like sand.
I seriously hate that more than anything else about Texas.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 4, 2011 7:14 PM CDT up reply actions
marble hill
and the river in question is the harlem.
/new yorker’d
/yes i read bhgp comment sections sometimes
by Rodger Sherman on Jul 2, 2011 11:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Syracuse is supposed to have you tied down as a New York CFB fan...
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions
I just watched the hour-long "Big Ten Welcomes Nebraska" show on BTN.
Glad to see they gave anybody and everybody who was a part of this program (coaches, players, broadcasters) a chance to tell us how good they are (I mean, were).
And they definitely got a soundbite from Trev Alberts.
I didn’t really hate Big Red until tonight. Now, I don’t hate them as much as I do Ohio State, but I definitely have some hate for the Huskers.
By the way, Rambler, did you know that Tommie Frazier (and Ahman Green) were available for fan questions tonight? Did you ask him whether or not he was able to hold Kerry Collins’ jock?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
The welcome show will be replayed a bunch this weekend (July 2, 3, 4).
Many of the re-plays are on over night.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 1, 2011 11:57 PM CDT up reply actions
No, Tommie was too busy being filmed for a "Top Ten Big Ten players" special or some crap.
Grr
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Don't worry, when they make a "Top Ten Big Ten Alcoholic Racists" special, I'm sure Collins will be prominently featured.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
He's a Top-3 for sure there. Overachieved more than his senior year.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 1:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I had no idea this happened
Until I Googled it. The first result was naturally the Wikipedia Kerry Collins page. I saw what he said and his motive for saying it.
Collins had stated that, in his intoxicated state, he thought the use of the racial epithet would help him and his teammates bond.
I actually spit out my Diet Coke at that point.
Somehow that strikes me as being better than Nebraska having five of the Top Ten Big Ten Alcholic Rapists.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 3, 2011 10:42 PM CDT up reply actions
To be fair
One of them only dragged a woman down 3 flights of stairs. I don’t think he raped anybody. I don’t THINK…
He was just misunderstood
He just needed the love and guidance of Dr. Tom Osborne to truly flourish, a suspension wouldn’t have solve any…well yes they did have a national title game coming up, what of it???
by NorseHawk on Jul 4, 2011 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well, he also drove his car into some teenagers,
and then got caught for assault of his girlfriend and auto theft after that.
This was all after his football career.
So, maybe not rape, but a lot of car-related crap and assaults. Maybe he can meet up with Stallone and the boys in prison and start fixing up cars. Like “Lock Up”.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Sly had apparently not yet figured out his roid routine correctly at this point
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions
I do not remember this movie.
The title is familiar, but I have no recollection of the contents of that box.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 4, 2011 3:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, the reason I talked about Lawrence Phillips working on cars in prison,
is because that’s what Stallone did in that movie.
And in that movie, the warden (Donald Sutherland) basically was terrorizing Stallone (who was to be released in a few months) into trying to escape, which only added time to Stallone’s sentence.
It’s kind of funny, as are many of those Stallone action films. Might be worth netflixing if you you’re looking for a mix of violence and cheezy 80s “drama.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 4:55 PM CDT up reply actions
To the best of my knowledge, most of the Penn State stuff included is Penn State stuff from the Big Ten era.
If they include Todd Blackledge in a Top Ten Big Ten players of the ’80s show, I promise to be angry because Todd Blackledge was too awesome to be a lame Big Ten player.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 4, 2011 7:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Why is it????????????
Every time I see the “Nebraska football coming this fall” comercial on the BTN I wanna puke?
because
we’re going to make you cry.
A lot. unless you don’t cry. Maybe you’re just a puker?
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
cornnation@gmail.com
by Jon Johnston on Jul 2, 2011 10:15 AM CDT up reply actions
Sorry
But only Northwestern and Dominique Douglas can make us cry. There’s nothing you could possibly do.
Doninique Douglas did no such thing
He has brought me great joy
This was pretty funny, Junior
Really, who names their kid John if their last name is Johnston?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Iknow someone named Robert Bobbert.
Obviously, the guy went by “Bob”.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
I went to high school
with a Forest Burns.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Jul 4, 2011 12:16 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
that's awesome.
Although, there seems to be more panic in the news nowadays about that issue.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 12:21 AM CDT up reply actions
I see your Robert Bobbert and raise you a
Richard Dick. Yep, for reals knew him when I was younger, he was older than my parents.
William Robert Williams
Swear to god. Smartest guy I ever met. Friends either called him Bill Bill, or Billy Bob Bill.
I am enjoying all of these
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 7:58 PM CDT up reply actions
My middle school assistant principle was named
Richard Lester Parkins, so naturally we called him Dick Les Parkins.
Of course the fact that he was terrifying and had a temper meant no one actually said it to his face, but still it was great.
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Jul 5, 2011 8:13 AM CDT up reply actions
I will call your Richard Dick
with my Dad’s friend, Harry Balls. I used to laugh so hard at his name, that Dad wouldn’t take me over his house anymore, which was terrible as Mr Balls had a swimming pool, pool table, and ping pong table. Not to mention his daughter, Stacie was smoking hot!
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by IAHawkfan4life on Jul 5, 2011 6:38 AM CDT up reply actions
Stacie Balls
has got it goin’ on?
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Well, there was Iowa basketball great John Johnson.
But to be fair, you said Johnston, not Johnson.
by Corncob Justice on Jul 3, 2011 9:56 AM CDT up reply actions
ConAgra Foods commercial:
I saw it on the Big Ten Welcomes Nebraska Show. They are pimping that they own the following brands: Orville Redenbacher, Slim Jim, Chef Boyardee, Snack Pack Pudding, Manwich, Healthy Choice, and Swiss Miss.
It is as if they said, “You know how every night, the news blames America’s health problems on diets high in sugar, fat, and salt? Well, let’s showcase the brands that deliver those things, in a commercial.”
(BTW, their other brands include LaChoy, Hunt’s, Wesson, Marie Callender’s, Crunch and Munch, Pam Cooking Sprays, Kid Cuisine, Egg Beaters, Reddi Whip, Hebrew National, Banquet, Peter Pan, Ro-Tel, and David Seeds.) Well, OK, I like those last five. I’m pretty much a sunflower seed addict (although I haven’t eaten any for about a month).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 12:34 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
Off Topic
But as a Corporate Chef who deals with the nations leading food manufacturers on a nearly daily basis our country is dependant on just a handful of food processors. For instance, any canned fruit or vegetable in the grocery store is canned by one of 3 canners – no matter what the label says.
I’m no tree-hugging organic food facist but there is a problem here. Check out Smithfeild foods and see how many brands they market. Scary in that they control the pork market to the extent they do.
Sorry about the sidetrack. Just felt compelled.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 2, 2011 9:54 AM CDT up reply actions
God bless you sir.
On a similar note, I strongly encourage everyone to read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.”
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 2, 2011 10:18 AM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
I think this has more weight coming from you, but I wholeheartedly agree
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Michael Pollan is smart
and has important things to say.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Jul 4, 2011 12:18 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
And then: Fast Food Nation
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:52 AM CDT up reply actions
I work with a company
that does food processing/manufacturing. You should probably be happy there’s only three.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
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by Jon Johnston on Jul 2, 2011 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions
Vertical integration and the consolidation of manufacturers leaves us
exposed to massive cover-ups in our food’s integrity. Also, the fewer competitors there are the more opportunities for price fixing. No Bueno.
I’m no wild-eyed commie, I lean more towards a Libertarian veiw. But there really is potential for a big big problem.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 2, 2011 11:12 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
you are
you lying bastard commie!!! that’s the first thing a commie would say!!!
I’m not sure you have can massive cover ups if people get sick. in talking to the food scientists about that peanut fiasco – I think they knew that the company was just flat out lying about what they were doing. Given that the industry has some standards, but not heavy standards, I’m not so sure having just a few processors isn’t okay.
And pricing fixing? The USA that Stanzi Loves – but apparently not you commie infiltrator dog – has always employed a “cheap food policy” with subsidies.
Oh. And we’re going to beat you in wrestling. Sometimes. And basketball. Do you guys have a volleyball team? Because I’ve never heard of it if you do.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
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by Jon Johnston on Jul 2, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Iowa has a volleyball team, and NU should defeat them frequently and with gusto.
I think it could be awhile before you guys beat us in wrestling. You guys really haven’t hit the highest level in the Big 12, and I’d say the top half of Big Ten wrestling is probably a step up from the Big 12.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 12:59 PM CDT up reply actions
And I don't think they'll stand a chance in either sex's basketball teams.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Men's basketball will be a contest (for Iowa).
Nebraska beat some ranked teams last year: (Mizzou, Texas, Texas A&M, Creighton, and Southern Cal.)
If Iowa plays them twice this year, I’d hope we’d sweep, but I’d expect a split.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 2, 2011 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions
meh, Iowa's on the rise. Nebraska is stagnant at mediocre.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Wasn't the movie "The Informant" precisely about price fixing in the food industry?
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Teddy Roosevelt
and btw
I’m pretty sure I’m older than you, and I can detect commies better than you. Even online!
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
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by Jon Johnston on Jul 2, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions
No doubt older,
uglier and with a strange penchant for employing corn cobs in a most unnatural way.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 2, 2011 6:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey that's my job.
The corn cob thing that is.
by Corncob Justice on Jul 3, 2011 9:57 AM CDT up reply actions
It's a mixture of government and crony capitalism.
A truly ridiculous amount of our food system is based entirely on corn – government subsidized, pesticided, genetically modified corn – because the government massively subsidizes a few bulk crops like corn, wheat, and soy. I don’t support food subsidies at all, but at least they could bother with lettuce or something instead of grains. That was great back in the 30s and 40s when lack of food was in the problem in America. But nowadays the problem is that we’ve removed most of the free market effects from the equation so that the cheapest food is the worst food. High fructose corn syrup should be much more expensive than sugar, because it’s a total chemical product. Not so when it’s crony capitalism instead of real capitalism. In crony capitalism, only the big guy (ConAgra and politicians) wins, the consumer, the middle-sized capitalist, and the small business guy all invariably get screwed.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions 7 recs
Some guy from the NYT did a study that showed that you get the most bang for your buck and get the most calories buying bad food at a major grocery store instead of buying fresh vegetables and what have you. So that’s the problem. The government continues to subsidize based entirely on what produces the most calories, a concept that might work if it was 1933 today.
I'm like the mice on jtothep's basement beam; scurrying back and forth along the entire length at breakneck speed.
by ReadingRambler on Jul 2, 2011 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions
When you step out from behind the crazy curtain you can have incredible insights.
Rec’d.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 2, 2011 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions
King Corn..
Great documentary on Iowa corn, corn syrup, and the decline of our nation’a food quality. Instant streaming on Netflix. Worth the hour and a half
"And after it was all over, he took us in the house and served us pancakes... pancakes." - Charlie Murphy
by Podolak Pimpin' on Jul 3, 2011 12:07 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Absolutely.
A fantastic doc.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Jul 3, 2011 10:03 AM CDT up reply actions
i just watched it
awesome and well done
made me remember Earl Butz
from OMHR racists jokes and all
but the herky ronald mcdonald,,,
we got to get a pic to that
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Where has THIS GUY been?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jul 3, 2011 2:36 AM CDT up reply actions
July 4th weekend must be a vacation from his
wrestling & Civil War-obsessed personality.
(If memory serves, I think RR does have another screen-name for SB Nation).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 3:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Michael Pollanis a crusader in things such as these.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
I would let Michael Pollan blow it in my face
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Buy local
buy organic
buy whole foods
These food megacorps work because we support them with our dollars. As soon as we buy fresh produce at the farmer’s market instead of ho-hos and twinkies, our obesity epidemic will go away, as will those who profit by it.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Yeah, but
I’m not sure anything at the farmer’s market tastes as good as a Twinkie.
Then again, I did have some damn good sweet corn today (sorry, it was from Georgia, I don’t think there is much Iowa stuff available yet.)
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 12:24 AM CDT up reply actions
Twinkies taste "good"
because they contain things that, in nature, are scarce. Your brain thinks you’re getting nutritious things, calories that it would be starved for if you were a hunter-gatherer walking across the plains. But there’s absolutely nothing nutritious about a twinkie. It’s corn syrup and chemicals. It’s barely food.
Twinkies contain 5 ingredients that are made out of rocks.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Yeah, but ROCKS R GUD.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 12:42 AM CDT up reply actions
Have you watched Jamie Oliver's Food Nation?
or whatever it’s called. he does one episode where he shows the origin of some of the ingredients in a sundae – bugs, goat hair, wholesome stuff like that.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
My two favorite cookbooks: Jamie Oliver & Cooking w Trader Joe's
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I've seen a couple episodes.
He was trying to get a school to serve more nutritious meals and the locals were giving him a hard time.
It’s so easy to eat right, but so hard to get people to understand what eating right really means. Of course eating right costs more, because all the calorie-dense pseudo-food products are made from subsidized and imported ingredients. But in the long term, it’s worth the investment. Heart surgery and diabetes medication are pretty expensive too.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
But, when you are buying food in mass quantities and
needing to keep it for awhile, like in a school system, and you have to worry about the costs of labor for preparing that food, you can see why school systems aren’t wild about going to so much more fresh food.
For instance, some Iowa school districts usually just serve fresh food like baby carrots, lettuce, or apples/oranges/bananas. If you see more labor-intensive foods, it is usually with the help of some volunteers (like when a bunch of old folks stop at the school and husk the corn.)
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions
You're missing the point of the "investment" of this
We spend at least twice as much as any other industrialized nation on health care for two primary reasons: overused end-of-life care and food science that has made obesity an epidemic. If we invest in and care about primary sources of food, it will more than outweigh the investment costs in productivity and health care costs.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Except that,
the school systems don’t have a financial interest in the obesity problem, whereas the lunch program costs hit them immediately.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be good to get kids eating healthy school lunches, but I’m not going to act like it is a horrible national emergency. Plus, half the kids will throw that healthier food straight in the trash anyway.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
most of the school systems are gov't, right?
gov’t has to pay for medicaid and medicare, right? ipso facto, gov’t has an interest in it
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Well,
that’s true, but some people have non-governmental insurance that helps them for awhile.
Also, it’s different levels of government. For instance, a local school system gets state money, but usually gets to control its budget. Medicare is a federal program (medicaid too, I think).
Basically, they’d all have to agree to sharing some responsibility and funding for this issue. And I’m not hopeful that they like to share money or credit for anything anymore.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 8:30 PM CDT up reply actions
They've figured out the push-pull on a lot of funding issues
This one doesn’t seem that difficult to me
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 11:30 PM CDT up reply actions
This:
Of course eating right costs more, because all the calorie-dense pseudo-food products are made from subsidized and imported ingredients.
It’s utterly asinine. To quote the farmer’s son Calvin Coolidge, “Farmers have always been poor. There’s not that much we can do about it.” Obviously two sentences isn’t enough to totally justify the end of agricultural subsidies, but a) Subsidies cannot be removed from politics, and that means the government is going to be screwing somebody, which is exactly contrary to the idea of government we originally had in this country and b) We’ve got loads of evidence that subsidizing CORN CORN CORN MORE CORN DAMN YOU MORE CORN isn’t working out too well for anybody except some big corporations.
As for me, I’ll stick to drinking my Appalachian Honey Root Beer and pouring Coke’s Corn Soda down the drain.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 4, 2011 7:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Why are you buying coke
if you are just going to poor it down the drain?
Formerly known as SpoWAHawk
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jul 5, 2011 6:42 AM CDT up reply actions
For the principle of it!
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 5, 2011 9:11 AM CDT up reply actions
If nothing else, we can never deny that Rambler is a deeply principled man.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I guess that is something
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TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jul 6, 2011 12:27 PM CDT up reply actions
My favorite Michael Pollan line
Twinkies are an edible food-like substance
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Once you stop eating crap like that, you can't get go back.
The only fast food I can tolerate, for instance, is Chick Fil-a. And only because those chicken strips seem to be actually properly prepared.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 4, 2011 7:17 PM CDT up reply actions
No McDonalds since '97!
Hardees even longer. It is extremely rare for me to eat BK or Wendy’s and any time I eat Taco Bell, rare as well, I think why am I eating this? It is gross and disappointing every time.
In & Out, Chipotle, Chick-Fil-A.
Love em. They cost about 50% more than comparable chains, but it’s worth it.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 7:57 PM CDT up reply actions
And it doesn't take much.
McDonald’s Corp bought a small Colorado restaurant named Chipotle and made them grow into a household name. This same McDonald’s stopped offering Super Sizes because of one movie. And they’ll soon require better treatment of beef cattle and better testing of their meat products for disease as soon as the clamor gets loud enough. They’re one example of many. It’s not a pirate ship anymore. Caring about food products is finally becoming important.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:27 AM CDT up reply actions
How long until McDonald's serves primarily meat-free burgers?
I still think it’s possible.
1. McDonald’s burgers, despite being “beef” aren’t that good – not like a real burger
2. Veggie burgers are chemists’ creations, and they are getting better at making things seem real
3. They might be cheaper at some point.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
It's an interesting question.
Who will win the race to the future first, the chemists or the whole-foodies? I tend to think it’s the latter, but that’s probably ignoring the reality of speed differences in scientific progress vs. human debate progress
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions
The trouble with these things
is that they so easily become political. As soon as you start legislating nutrition or whatever, you’re taking away people’s freedom. I’ll always be against that. But the fact of the matter is, if the majority of people actually ate well, McDonald’s et al would have to go through some major changes or go out of business. The above examples where they’re changing their sales strategy and pursuing healthier beef are good ones. But we live in a world where every psychological string is pulled by advertising and presentation, and our choices aren’t always so clear. When given the choice between more money spent on quality product and more money spent on advertising, 9 out of 10 companies will buy airtime instead.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
My general point
is that grass-roots complaints have actually changed things. McDonald’s has changed to avoid being forced out of business. Not just the few I listed, but things like almost all fast food now being free of trans-fats. That one in particular was legislated in California, but the others weren’t. They’re just a change in public opinion that causes a change in McDonald’s policy. Which matters a lot. McDonald’s sets the pace for fast food trends, and quickly, which is similar to getting through to Wal-Mart on retail or Goldman-Sachs on finance. It’s not just setting the pace, it’s causing the middle man to change for all other retail businesses.
And while I agree on the advertising conundrum issue (things you mentioned, as well as things like $100M in advertisting to show off $500K in donations), that one is just not getting solved. So I hope the other portion that is changing can at least outpace that.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Also: Legislation is not always bad.
It tends to be and is usually annoying, but without it we would certainly not have any of these for food choices:
They’re not solutions, but at least they’re pieces to the puzzle that hold real basis in fact
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 2:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, meat-free burgers. Sounds great.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I feel like that movie poster gives away the plot/twist
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
um... if you haven'tseen the movie, sorry, but they're not meat-free. that was sort of the problem.
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Yeah, I know.
But they didn’t know that till later.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Potential for a problem?
There IS a big problem. Our food is barely food anymore. Even the fruits and veggies are colored to be more appealing to the eye.
McDonalds markets apple slices in their kids meals now. Healthy right?
Ever wonder how McD’s apples don’t turn brown, even when, say: a kid leaves them on a picnic table at a summertime BBQ for an hour?
And fast food is only the tip of the iceburg. “Food” for thought.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 4, 2011 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Right. Like pollan says, try an apple from your local grocery chain...
…then try one from an organic, whole-foods, local farmer. The former is bigger, redder and just not as good. I think this is one of my favorite youtube clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqQttJinjo
In the past 10 years, just four team owners have not paid a luxury tax and are not on pace to pay one this year: Donald Sterling, Jerry Reinsdorf, Chris Cohen (Golden State), Bob Johnson (Charlotte).
Two owners’ teams averaged an operating income of over +$10 million per year while their teams have lost over 60% of their games: Donald Sterling and Jerry Reinsdorf.
Nebraska
Ohio State State instills fury and hate. Nebraska just nauseates.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 2, 2011 9:57 AM CDT reply actions
Have no dog in this fight (LSU fan and overall big college football fan)...
and you might have a point with,
in the last 10 years, Iowa has had a much better football program than Nebraska. It’s not even close. The Hawkeyes would have beaten Nebraska in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. This wouldn’t even be a rivalry if Nebraska had joined the Big 10 a decade ago, it’d be a bloodbath.
but when I think about Nebraska vs. Iowa, all I think about is this . This one should be one hell of a rivalry. I know, I know, depressingly when I think about LSU and Iowa, all I can think about is this—motherF***er, how the bleep! did that happen, bleep!
"Fast Eddie: No bar?
Cashier: No bar, no pinball machines, no bowling alleys, just pool... nothing else. This is Ames, mister."
From the movie--The Hustler
GET TO THE RIM HEAT (and SKY)! ATTACK THE PAINT!
obligatory link
Remember the Rose Bowl: The Story of the Alabama Crimson Tide & the Grandaddy of Them All
Velvet. Fucking. Horses.
/Still makes me laugh.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Jul 3, 2011 10:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Gotta love smooth Eddie Hinkel's illegal pick on that play
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 10:01 AM CDT up reply actions
In 1999
Iowa had the worst football team we’d had since the Lauterbur years (71-73)
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
And that highlight shows it.
I was at that game. Ugh. Good thing I don’t remember much of it because Fieldhouse tailgating was still raging at that time.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 12:29 AM CDT up reply actions
We actually held it close for the first half the next year
Ferentz really turned a bad situation into a good one.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
This says it all
I wont take credit for it, but I found this online a few weeks ago:
“Nebraska has been down since 1999…however if you compare Nebraska to Iowa since Ferentz took over at Iowa (and many in Iowa think this is the Golden Era), Nebraska has about 10 more wins over that time period.
So in the worst decade in the last 50 years that Nebraska has had, it is still better than the best decade that Iowa has had.”
Oh.. and we have 5 Championships!
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
I'm not sure anyone is calling this the Golden Era in Iowa football yet.
The 1980s were pretty good for Iowa, and Iowa’s winning percentage is better then than for Ferentz’s career.
Also, if I were in a division as weak as the B12 North, and had one BCS bowl appearance (a loss), and a bowl record of 4-4 while being in one Rose Bowl, 2 Holiday Bowls, 2 Alamo Bowls, an Independence Bowl, a Cotton Bowl, and a Gator Bowl, and was on my third coach of the decade, I don’t think I’d talk/write smack to other schools.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 12:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Word.
The Hayden Era demands mentioning. Hell, look at the 50’s w/ Evy (obviously incredibly short) spawning 3 BT Championships, 2 Rose Bowl wins, and a mNC. Watching the ‘84 Orange Bowl and heading to Jimmy Johnson era. God I’m loving Miami right now..
"And after it was all over, he took us in the house and served us pancakes... pancakes." - Charlie Murphy
by Podolak Pimpin' on Jul 3, 2011 12:47 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I have to root for Nebraska over Miami.
It would probably take reversal of the earth’s polarity for me to root for “the U.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 1:06 AM CDT up reply actions
What, no love for the convicts?
Seeing almighty Big Red get dropped has to invoke some joy in some fiber of your being?
"And after it was all over, he took us in the house and served us pancakes... pancakes." - Charlie Murphy
by Podolak Pimpin' on Jul 3, 2011 1:44 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I however do hate "The U" slogan..
My High School tried to use it for football as our logo. Then ultimately got bitchslapped by “The U” for copyrights. Damn, scout. How often do they come to Iowa, I mean really?
"And after it was all over, he took us in the house and served us pancakes... pancakes." - Charlie Murphy
by Podolak Pimpin' on Jul 3, 2011 1:48 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
LPC Union?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 2:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Yessir.
Black Hawk County’s finest city.
"And after it was all over, he took us in the house and served us pancakes... pancakes." - Charlie Murphy
by Podolak Pimpin' on Jul 3, 2011 10:51 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I have a couple of friends,
one who grew up there, and one who graduated high school there.
I’ll admit, I tend to refer to LPC as the capital of young, unwed mothers.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
You may be confusing us with Evansdale..
As the single mother capital of Iowa. We prefer the astute label as “The largest meth hub north of I-80” or perhaps “Largest consumption per capita of Busch Light.” The latter evokes great pride within our fair city.
"And after it was all over, he took us in the house and served us pancakes... pancakes." - Charlie Murphy
by Podolak Pimpin' on Jul 3, 2011 8:10 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
'many' in this case meaning 'absolutely no one'
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 3, 2011 1:08 AM CDT up reply actions
One slight problem
Ferentz’s two first years were 1-10 and 3-9 while the program recovered. Four wins. In those two years, Nebraska won 22 games. Good on you, boys. But that means that Iowa’s up 8 wins since then, a span that covers—you guessed it—10 years. So it’s not better than the best decade Iowa has had, nor would any 12-year span be.
Thanks for explaining why Nebraska got kicked out of the AAU, though.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
by Adam Jacobi on Jul 3, 2011 3:30 AM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
OK...
So your BEST period is 8 wins better than NU’s worst in 50 years. You won that argument Sir!
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
Watch out...
They don’t let you move the goal posts like that in the Big Ten
by TiltingAtDrewTateWindmills on Jul 3, 2011 11:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
"Nebraska has been down since 1999"
Nebraska was in the national championship in 2001. That’s a hell of a way to fudge the numbers for your down period. A better starting point is 2002, when Iowa had it’s first really good Kirk Ferentz team and Nebraska had it’s first average season in a long time. Iowa has 5 more wins in the period from 2002 until now, which includes the incredibly average Drew Tate/Jake Christensen period.
by Lioli44 on Jul 3, 2011 6:01 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Let's be fair.
If we’re going to chastise an NU fan for fudging their numbers, then we can’t refer to the beginning of Drew Tate’s career as “average.” They won 10 games and a share of the Big Ten title. That isn’t exactly a regularity at Iowa.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 3:41 PM CDT up reply actions
That first year was great.
The next two, not so much. And that’s more of the Drew Tate I remember.
I couldn’t think of a better term to describe that three year period. I guess mid-decade would work, or just the Jake Christensen era, since he was on the roster for those three years and I like blaming things on Jake Christensen.
Drew Tate actually had a MUCH better stat line in '05
More touchdowns, half as many interceptions, more yards/attempt, etc. His ’06 stats fell back to 2004 form, but that could also be attributed to an under-performing OL and receivers like Herb Grigsby being the best in our rotation, and injuries depleting the roster. And remember Kellen Lewis and James Hardy playing keep-away with Adam Shada? Ugh.
Tate was a good QB, but the stretch from ‘05 to ’07 we didn’t have a deep team, and were missing a few essential cogs.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Tate was never healthy in '06.
It was an oblique, right? Something in or around the ribcage? Either way, he never let it heal and it affected his play in a very bad way.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
DAMN YOU, SOLON BEEF DAYS
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I'm not sure anyone here really believes
The 2009 or 2010 iowa offense would outscore Nebraska’s 2009 or 2010 defense. Maybe our D would get as many points on you as your offense on us.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 12:08 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
I repeat - Nauseating
Especially douche baggy fans like this guy.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 3, 2011 1:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Shit. He's here now.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 1:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Yep, if I had no rebuttal, I would also disregard the comment and insult the commenter.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 2:54 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Do you truly believe your comment?
If so I will comment on it.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 3, 2011 3:21 PM CDT up reply actions
No, I don't.
But I really don’t believe Iowa would beat Nebraska every one of those years, especially 2009 and 2010. Probably 2002 and the callaghan years.
But one thing to note that I read on corn nation, which brings up a good point as I know a lot of iowa fans, is this delusional idea that “if we played you ____ year we would have beat you.” I don’t get this at all, its baseless, its dumb, etc
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 3:30 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Well, I believe your comment
But I also believe our defense would score more than your defense and offense combined and then monkeys would fly out of Pelini’s butt and Herky would ass fuck your Husker guy penitentary style.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 3, 2011 3:34 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I'm convinced satan is out, and your comment is nothing more than his mischief.
I’ll be praying for your soul!!! 
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 3:39 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I like to picture Jesus
in a tuxedo T-shirt.
Love Talladega Nights.
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TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jul 6, 2011 12:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Good point
"if we played you ____ year we would have beat you."
That’s a really good point. It’s hypothetical and somewhat baseless. Then again, so is your belief that you’re going to do so and so based upon things that happened when 2Pac was still alive.
by mikjones24 on Jul 3, 2011 9:22 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
2Pac is still alive, though.
Or at least that’s what last night’s re-run episode of Chapelle’s Show told me.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 10:56 PM CDT up reply actions
insult =/= lament
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by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I have to admit
I have much respect for Osborne and for Nebraska football in general. They’re hard-nosed, real football and they care about players as people instead of just as jersey numbers as a place like OSU or USC does.
I just wish their fans weren’t so fucking insufferable.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:53 PM CDT up reply actions
I believe. I believe!!!
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Jul 3, 2011 3:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey, Fake Pelini,
if you had said Iowa’s 2007 offense (18.5 ppg) would get outscored by 2007 Nebraska’s D (39.7 ppg), I’d concur. But your comment was pretty absurd.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions
However, your defense WAS playing in the Big 12 that year,
where defense appears to be in severe decline.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not sure this helps your cause.
This actually means our D played against high powered offenses. Think about what they(well, really, Suh) did to Texas in 09, and how their backup QB hung with Alabama.
Point is, any game in 09 and last year was a winnable game for nebraska because other teams just had soo much trouble scoring for the most part.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 3:59 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Or, it could mean
that teams had to/were trying to play much more high-scoring football, which led to more turnovers and points by the few competent defenses in that league.
So, I might call 07 Nebraska’s defense “competent”, except that opposing teams scored 40+ against 07 Nebraska 6 different times, including: USC (49), Ball St (40), Mizzou (41), Ok St (45), Kansas (76), and Colorado (65).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 4:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not talking about 2007 Nebraska.
Please take that win, that was a callaghan year and we see that the same way NW see’s pre-1993 years.
I’m talking about 09 and 2010 Nebraska.
Iowa – great team in 09. Would not have beat Nebraska.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 4:14 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I don't know about 2009.
While we just snuck by some teams early, and dropped two games late, I think we had a shot to beat NU. 09 NU was the team that lost 9-7 to ISU, and lost by 3 TDs to TTec (both losses in Lincoln).
I can excuse the loss to a 10-win VaTech, and the loss in the B12 title game to Texas. And yes, you handled a Arky State team that played us close, but I don’t think a healthy Iowa team loses to TTech, and obviously we killed ISU by 32 points.
As for 2010, both Iowa and Nebby kind of faded late in the year. Iowa probably faded worse, so I’ll give NU the advantage late in the year. In the beginning of or the middle of 2010, I think an Iowa v Nebby game would be a good game.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 7:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Right, it was partly a joke.
But if you see a couple comments above, Iowa would have won some of those games(2002, and callaghan years) but thinking they would have won’t ALL of those games is just as absurd.
But again, this “if our team played your team ____ year, we would beat you” is kind of retarded. Specially since iowa wasn’t exactly that great.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 3:54 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I won't say exactly the same that was in the post at the top of this page,
but I think many Big Ten fans think that Nebraska is coming from a league that has been pretty weak defensively for several years. I think some Iowa fans believe that Iowa teams from these past few years have usually played very good defense (and our defensive national rankings would back that up).
Therefore, I think some Iowa fans believe that Nebraska would have more trouble beating Big Ten teams, especially an Iowa team that has been at or near the top of the Big Ten for 3 or 4 of those years.
But yes, much of this is hypothetical.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 4:09 PM CDT up reply actions
There is absolutely no question
That Nebraska will struggle with a lot of big ten teams, including iowa. But everyone of those games is very winnable, so it’s really a toss up. And I’m attending the game with 2 nebraska fans ans 2 iowa fans from east germany(council bluffs). So it’ll be fun as hell and hopefully goes down to the wire.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 4:19 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
We capitalize Heavenly places like "Iowa"
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Leave it to an NU fan to bring two Hawk fans from the Soviet Bloc.
I bet you’ll be grilling bratwurst at the tailgate.
/I’m just ribbing you.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 3, 2011 7:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Hell turn that thing inside out
Ribbed for his pleasure? Fuck that ribbed for your pleasure I say
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TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jul 3, 2011 10:37 PM CDT up reply actions
not like I have a choice
All iowa fans are commie soviets.
/Happy 4th ya sunsabitches!
by Fake Pelini on Jul 4, 2011 1:19 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
You are the one in Red, not us.
Did you miss the whole Love it or leave it movement? I fear you have us confused with some other team.
Hmmm. 2009 Nebraska.
Your D couldn’t outscore these guys. And your D had no shortage of opportunities. ISU’s O was not a power house, or competent, or existent for that matter. They outscored your D. And your O. Combined. With a backup QB. Your argument is invalid.
Yep, if I had no rebuttal, I would also disregard the comment and insult the commenter.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 5:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Your comment doesn't warrant a rebuttal
But since you asked, I’ll give you one.(Oh, also, I didn’t insult the commenter.)
At the end of the season, the Blackshirts were either the top, or 2nd ranked scoring defense in college. I think top. They shut out Arizona 33-0, which Iowa went on to lose to several months later.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 6:03 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
“Several months later” – As in during the 2010 season?!? And that shows that 2009 Iowa vs. 2009 Nebraska would have… mind blown
HOW THE FUCK DOES PAPER BEAT ROCK???
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by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 10:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Transitive Property: Iowa State from 2009 & 2010
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Jul 3, 2011 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions
A rebuttal
In the fall of 1996, our starting QB was injured. But did we just sit and moan & cry? NO. We went out and beat the pants of off Alden HS who went on to beat Dike-New Hartford, who beat Madrid-who went on to become the runners up in state.
And Alden’s school colors? RED and BLACK (shirts).
Dike-New Hartford had a guy who went to ISU.
Madrid had a guy named ‘Tommy’ on its team.
Alden-same color as Nebraska.
ISU a team that beat Nebraska.
‘Tommy’ the name of a guy that played for Nebraska.
Therefor, ipso facto, ergo, your point is nullified.
Nevertheless, Well played, worthy adversary. Your deduction skills are, truly, formidable.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 3, 2011 11:08 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
Rec'd for demonstrativeness.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
ahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhaha
This is a serious point that you are trying to make hahahahah
Nebraska fans are seriously the worst
Just to be clear
You’re OK with the first two points, correct? (Pelini is an ignorant manchild and T-Money will be broken by B10 Defenses).
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by therealCatnuts on Jul 3, 2011 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions
I can only win so many pissing matches at a time.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 3, 2011 5:24 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I made a trophy for you because you're so awsum!
Hope you like it.
On Iowa
by keosahawkeye on Jul 3, 2011 7:02 PM CDT up reply actions 13 recs
FIVE. NATIONAL. CHAMPIONSHIPS!
Me – 1
You all – 0
;)
by Fake Pelini on Jul 4, 2011 1:24 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
We got what we asked for
when we took in Nebraska to our conference.
For those of you not from western Iowa Fake Pelini is a textbook example of Husker fans (many, not all).
Insipid arrogance, stupidity, and a superior attitude. All based on past accomplishments. Some, many years ago, impressive. But, more recently citing records and achievements gained playing in the second tier division of a very ordinary conference.
It's so sad how a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs.
by FiveSecondRuleChef on Jul 4, 2011 8:25 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh pshaw
Who cares if some Derpbraska fans take themselves too seriously. As long as you don’t take them (or yourselves) so seriously, there’s no trouble.
It’s kind of like the pimply fat kid who insists on one star trek captain being better than all the rest and will fight to his dying breath to prove it. Sometimes you just have to grin, let them continue to live in their little world, and move on.
Come November, we can have this discussion again, with at least one data point to use as a basis of argument. Until then, it’s so much chest puffing.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
FWIW
Bill Callahan is spelled Callahan. Unless the “g” is a bit, I’d think you could at least attempt to spell his fucking name right.
why the fuck would I care to spell his name right?
Have a little sense, will you?
by Fake Pelini on Jul 4, 2011 11:11 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Hey, Todd Lickliter didn't do us any favors
But at least we have the balls to A) acknowledge that yes, that did happen and B) to spell his name right.
It was why would I care to spell his name right. I did happen, he came in with his crapped on our program, wiped his ass with our tradition, etc. He basically turned us into Purdue.
/sobs, tears acl
So it isn’t that I don’t acknowledge it happened, it’s that we moved on to bigger and better things.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 4, 2011 11:58 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
You mean the tradition you guys were so loyal to when you fired Frank Solich?
Seriously, if you don’t feel like you deserved the Callahan era just for the way you treated Solich, you’re an idiot.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 4, 2011 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
This is an underrated comment.
Innovators look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different.
by K. Scott Bailey on Jul 5, 2011 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Wow. Beating Nebraska this year is gonna be so much more fun than I'd originally thought.
Who’s their 4th string QB?
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Jul 4, 2011 12:58 PM CDT reply actions
Bubba Starling.
wait, shit.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 4, 2011 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions
You might be the "Great Fake Pelini", but can you do this with your eyes?
On Iowa
by keosahawkeye on Jul 4, 2011 7:27 PM CDT reply actions 8 recs
I can't stop looking!
I can’t stop laughing!
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Seriously?
I think most Iowa fans are pretty educated and realistic about their football team but then there are those that are a little clueless. Let me help educate Adam before he sticks his foot in his mouth any further.
Over the last 10 years Iowa has one more win (and five less losses) than Nebraska. Keep in mind this is the worst 10 years in the past four decades for Nebraska and the best 10 years for Iowa. Here are what the past four decades look like.
Iowa Nebraska
Year Win Loss Win % Win Loss Win %
Last 41 yrs 257 220 53% 403 102 79%
Last 10 yrs 85 41 67% 84 46 65%
Really?!?! Big Brother. You might be able to claim ISU’s big brother, especially with the dominance over them the past 10 years…
Versus Iowa State
Iowa Nebraska
last 10 yrs 5-5 7-3
All time 36-19 86-17-2
And I know how you would have "dominated" us over the past 10 years giving yourself 8 wins in those years but we have never considered Iowa State a rivalry. It seems odd that you would have beat us 8 of those 10 years yet we have the better record against your other little brother.
Here is your claim to fame (From HawkeyeSports.com):
“The 2002 team was probably the most decorated in Iowa football history. Ferentz led the 2002 Hawkeyes to their first Big Ten title since 1990 and the most wins (11) in school history. Iowa posted impressive road wins at Penn State and Michigan on its way to the school’s first undefeated Big Ten campaign since 1922. The Hawkeyes also played in the BCS’s FedEx Orange Bowl for the first time, having their nine-game winning streak snapped by Southern California. "
…In 2002 Ohio State also "won" the big 10 and won the National Championship. Iowa and Ohio State did not play that year and Iowa lost games against ISU (31-36) and USC (17-38). Want to guess what they would have done against Ohio State? This historic year for the Hawks would have been considered an average year for Nebraska in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
Sure, you have had some decent teams. In the past 41 years you have won the Big 10 five times (4 of those being tie’s, like 2002). Let me tell you about some of the better Nebraska teams. I’ll skip past the numerous conference championships and just keep with the National Championship seasons. In the past 41 years we have played for the National Championship eight times, five of which we won. The 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers have often been labeled the best college football team ever. In that year the inferior conference called the Big 8 had 4 teams end the season in the top 10. They beat an undefeated Florida team that was ranked #2 in the nation 62-24. That same Florida team won the national championship the following year.
We are a little more realistic than you. You will beat us on an occasion. You will have some decent teams and will catch us off guard or down some seasons but don’t expect it to be like your “dominance” over ISU. We are a little better than ISU.
As far as stadiums and tradition, Lincoln Memorial stadium has been sold out for every game since 1962. Articles are written every year about how we are the greatest fans around. One place that you beat us out is partying. Iowa is more of a party than Nebraska. Then again, I might be an alcoholic if I had the teams and tradition that you have.
Don’t worry, we remember well what it was like having a "~200 pound mobile quarterback going against Big Ten defenses". His name was Eric Crouch. See the youtube video of him running over the Iowa defensive back.
It is funny how you have a few decent years and it goes to your head. Come back and talk to me when Iowa has actually done something.
I just scanned this...
…and found more grammatical errors than the Big XII has shitty teams. Aren’t you supposed to be a tier 1 school to get into the B1G?
Ma'am, you're dealing here with a fully qualified male strumpet. I service the entire Quad Cities area: Moline, Rock Island, Davenport and Bettendorf. Why don't you give it a whirl? What have you got to lose? - Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute
Let me summarize.
“Iowa over the last 10 years: 85-41
Nebraska over the last 10 years: 84-46
Well, congratulations… Iowa’s best decade of football ever is slightly better than Nebraska’s worst decade in the last fifty years." – Husker Mike
so suck on that! bitchesssss!
/fivenationaltitles
You've been in the conference for four days
and that line is already tired.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 5, 2011 1:47 AM CDT up reply actions
In fairness, most people using that line are parodying Nebraska fans.
I don’t blame them for wanting to own it. But yes, it is quite tired.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
Why should I care about the last forty-one years?
While I would love to do the research to find out when the Golden Era of Nebraska started*, forty years is an arbitrary cutoff. Could it be that you’re going back forty-one years because of the 1970 and 1971 championships, and not for the purpose of honesty? Next year, will you make the last forty-two years the cutoff instead?
You know, this is part of why the Big Ten gets a bad rap as smug and out of touch. While the SEC eats everybody’s lunch, we sit here and reminisce of how relevant we were before we were born.
*LOHL JK.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
This is just as arbitrary…“in the last 10 years, Iowa has had a much better football program than Nebraska.”. This author happened to point out the worst 10 years in the last forty decades for Nebraska. It is no different.
It must suck to have a team where you can’t just celebrate the good years you have had so you have to try to slam the opposing teams. Poor angry hawk fans.
Ten years is a whole hell of a lot less arbitrary than forty-one years.
You see, our society uses base ten for counting and we just finished a decade, 2001-2010. Ten years is a good measure of the short and medium term success of a program, which is where Iowa has been better than Nebraska. Forty-one years shows the long term success of a program, and nobody would deny that Nebraska has had a better forty-one years than Iowa. Except you clearly picked that number so you could shoehorn in the 1970 championship season. If you wanted not to be mocked, you should have used the last forty years, or better yet either thirty or fifty years. Base ten is your friend!
I’m not an Iowa fan. I’m an Ohio State fan, and I’m an arrogant Natty Light-drinking asshole, but the Buckeyes have had the short, medium, and long term success to justify some of that arrogance. You and Nebraska fans of your ilk have no excuse for your arrogance: your program is already mostly irrelevant in the championship picture, and you’re only a few years away from total irrelevance.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
by Semicorrect on Jul 5, 2011 8:21 AM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
Ouch
Beat me to it.
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by ClaybornSmash on Jul 5, 2011 8:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Nothing justifies arrogance, you stupid fop.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 5, 2011 9:13 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
"...forty decades for Nebraska..."
I had no idea Nebraska has been playing football for 400 years. Impressive. You do have a lot of history. Of course, you were playing football before the game was invented no wonder you racked up so many wins. Is that what it’s like playing in the Big12 North anyway or is it closer to the Big 8?
At 10 PM on July 4th
This Husker is writing a looooong response to an intentionally and blatantly over-the-top post rather than watching fireworks.
If there is a better definition of husker fandom, I don’t know what it is.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Jul 5, 2011 8:36 AM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
There it is. Nail on the head.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 5, 2011 9:26 AM CDT up reply actions
How have I never seen this awesome gif?
My life has changed forever.
Going, going, going, going, going, going, going, going.... Alright, I'll stop for now.
by EnergizerHawk on Jul 6, 2011 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I read absolutely none of this and have no intention whatsoever of doing so any time soon.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 5, 2011 9:12 AM CDT up reply actions
I stopped reading
when he started citing sources.
I can sum up the gist of his screed in two words: “trolled hard.”
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
I dunno, this was good:
One place that you beat us out is partying. Iowa is more of a party than Nebraska. Then again, I might be an alcoholic if I had the teams and tradition that you have.
by The Final Gun on Jul 5, 2011 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions
An open question to all Nebraska fans.
At the beginning of the Big 12, Nebraska was by far the most powerful program in that conference. Oklahoma and Texas were not “back” yet, Mizzou wasn’t real good, Kansas had a good year or two, and Kansas State wasn’t recognized as good yet. Iowa State was pretty bad, Baylor was bad-to-OK, TTech wasn’t much yet, Okie State was middling, Colorado and Texas A&M were about as close to “national powers” as you could find in that conference.
15 years later, and you guys are leaving the conference, and Oklahoma and Texas have passed you by. You haven’t won a conference title since 1997. When other people call you out on this decline, you go back 15 years and act like it means something to anyone outside the state of Nebraska.
A few of your fans have made their way to places like Off Tackle Empire, and have pre-emptively claimed to be a contender for the upcoming year, sometimes even claiming to be a favorite.
So, when Iowa fans on an Iowa blog talk some shit, why must you point back to 15 years ago? Just take it as it is meant to be, good-spirited hazing as you join the Big Ten. If you act all superior when you are the new kid on the block, you only reinforce the negative stereotype that many people have for the small percentage of your fanbase that are overconfident butt-heads.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 5, 2011 8:46 AM CDT reply actions 3 recs
I like it!
rec’d for sure
Formerly known as SpoWAHawk
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by IAHawkfan4life on Jul 6, 2011 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions
This may be the best thing you've ever posted.
Well said.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 8, 2011 11:47 AM CDT up reply actions
An open question to all Nebraska fans.
SUCK IT.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 5, 2011 9:13 AM CDT reply actions 6 recs
Solid and fair question.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 5, 2011 9:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Hijack alert
Brooklyn Decker sex tape. Brooklyn Decker sex tape. NSFW
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 5, 2011 10:00 AM CDT reply actions 4 recs
I like this.
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 5, 2011 11:03 AM CDT up reply actions
I hate you for the false advertising
But love you for the link
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
We are the “arrogant” and “overconfident butt-heads”. You are the ones claiming victories over us all these years we didn’t play and “We will beat you”. And how the big 10 defenses are so great, like we have never seen. That sounds pretty arrogant to me.
I’m just stating facts. You are the one claiming all these victories. Why don’t you take a look at how our defenses faired the past two years.
Most Husker fans don’t expect to walk into the big 10 and win it, although that is what many of the experts are saying. We expect to have a few losses considering our tough schedule.
http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2011/7/1/2254569/welcome-to-the-big-ten-nebraska#71240790
This Husker is writing a looooong response to an intentionally and blatantly over-the-top post
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 5, 2011 1:36 PM CDT up reply actions
One writer claimed that. I do think Iowa would have won some of those meetings, perhaps the two years that Iowa made the Orange Bowl, at least.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 5, 2011 3:48 PM CDT up reply actions
All i know is...
This is only going to get more ugly as the years go on…and i love it..! Now i don’t have to sit around and hope Nebraska will choke and lose to Iowa State! Welcome to the big 10 lil’ Red!
by Put Down the Haterade on Jul 5, 2011 2:27 PM CDT reply actions
Oh way to pull out the youtube highlights...
Take a glance at this..
I know it’s not Iowa, but its still fun to watch! And i think i’ll call you what i want, I’m actually excited to have the Huskers around. I’m sure things will get even better as time goes on. Stick around you might be entertained.
Football, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
by Put Down the Haterade on Jul 6, 2011 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
Link Fail...
Football, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
by Put Down the Haterade on Jul 6, 2011 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions
My godness, you all take everything WAY too seriously.
If you plan on spending any time over here you might want to develop a sense of humor. The longer you stay the more fun you will have if you can do that. There is a reason people from other schools drop by as often as they do. We are fun. Obviously, if this is a place members of other blogs enjoy spending time at it probably means there isn’t a lot of trolling. You are your cronies might want to think about that before you post. If not, you can probably just go ahead and fuck off, IMO.
He just threw a little jab, so I threw a little jab back. Wow, chill. I honestly come here cause this is probably the best site on sb nation. It’s sophomoric, pelican whore type of humor is just my kind of humor. No offense intended by my response above.
That might be true for this comment, however, in this thread and in RossWB's post you have done plenty of trolling.
Didn’t take long for me to find this gem.
so suck on that! bitchesssss!The whole violin thing in the other thread, really? Doing it once was stupid but when you keep doing it it is beyond annoying.
/fivenationaltitles
This IS the best site on SBN but it is mostly because it’s members are fun and seem to respect each other. I have yet to see that from you. I hope that as time goes on you are more than the dickish jerk are coming across as, it appears we are all going to be together for a while.
/Oops, I meant you AND your cronies. Typing is hard. Again, this is my opinion and does not reflect the views or opinions of the mods or anyone else on BHGP, but it might.
by Carfino'sWay on Jul 5, 2011 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I've noticed that guys like Fake Pelini,
and Biggy over on OTE, just want some respect. I was probably that way earlier in my time hanging around BHGP, also.
I actually made a small peace with Biggy (an OSU fan that many around here refer to as a “troll”), the other day. I feel like Fake Pelini may be in the same boat. He just feels compelled to defend his favorite team against all the salvos we fire at them.
Or, he’s just as big an asshole as Real Pelini.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 5, 2011 11:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't spend time at Corn Nation b/c I fear my head would explode
and frankly, I don’t have anything constructive to say. I don’t recall anyone named Biggy posting on this site so what he said must not bothered me. I was always told as a child that you get respect by giving it, coming over to another team’s site and being a jerk is not the way to do that. Fans of other teams we hate; MInnesota, jNW ISU, OMHR, come over here all the time w/o issue. We were just “defended” by an OSU fan, for goodness sake. You can defend your team w/o being opprobrious.
I agree w/ Catnuts the time I have spent at OTE had diminished quite a bit because of interactions I have had w/ UNL fans there and the way they hijack threads.
Very well said. Rec.
Fake Pelini, I think you realize you’re doing the definition of trolling here. It’s fun to poke jabs at the other guys, I agree, but at a certain point it’s just overdone. You’ve reached that point. You’re on another fanbase’s site, behave accordingly. And it’s not just here, you and a couple others are making OTE less fun. Just think how annoying it would be if the talkative mofos here spent a ton of time at your home base drowning out your own interests. A little respect on both sides goes a long way.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 5, 2011 11:35 PM CDT up reply actions
In fairness, I've been quite chatty on the Corn Nation thread that
was a response to Jacobi’s “Welcome to the Big Ten, Nebraska” thread.
But, I’d argue I haven’t been too overbearing over at Corn Nation.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 5, 2011 11:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Your kind of chatty and Fake Pelini's kind of chatty are very different. That's a good thing.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 6, 2011 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions
On that post at corn nation
That waterloo commented on, I had nothing but good things to say about this site. Maybe not the team, but this site is one of my favorites. While along the olentangy I would give two shits for.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 6, 2011 7:39 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Keep America Beautiful
Good-natured ribbing: Good
Bad-natured putdowns: Bad
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 6, 2011 8:06 AM CDT up reply actions
Hey, look something we can all agree on, ATO is horrible!
Bridges are being built here people. Maybe we aren’t so different after all, (No this is not me comparing Iowa to Nebraska.)
I just saw this on OTE,
so why not put it on this thread, as well:
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110705/NEWS/110709909#nu-reports-violations-over-books
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
Def Sucks to be Iowegian this year...
Did I mention Iowa will not score in Lincoln this year? Nada. Nothing. Zero.
derp you're late derp
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 6, 2011 9:56 AM CDT up reply actions
Quick!
Feed the Troll!!!
Football, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
by Put Down the Haterade on Jul 6, 2011 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
I may be late
but at least I am not living in Iowa, or rooting for the hapless, helpless, Iowa hickeyes.
You do realize that your football team won’t score against the Blackshirts this fall? I mean, seriously. THIS IS NEBRASKA YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT.
You all should immediately begin hoping and praying for 2nd place in the Division each and every year moving forward, as Iowa no longer has any chance at making a championship game.
Ever.
You've showed up about 5 days late.
This is probably what your football team will seem to have done on November 25th, (showed up late).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 6, 2011 10:37 PM CDT up reply actions
ALL HAIL THE UNSTOPPABLE BLACKSHIRTS, WHO HAVE NEVER SUCKED EVER
P.S. JAKE LOCKER IS REALLY GOOD!
"Man, Oklahoma sucks." - Ki-Jana Carter
by ReadingRambler on Jul 7, 2011 7:37 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Big Red Stranglehold
Welcome to Nebraska’s Division, silly iowegians. In time, you won’t mind losing to us.
George Takei wants to speak with you.
"As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part."
Wow, you must be a mathematician!
That’s a hell of an equation. Question is, can you make the leap to astrophysics?
"As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part."
weak sauce.
….you better hope you have more than “off-tackle” and “play action passing” to go with that BS at the top of this page…. the Blackshirts are going to make your big talk sound pretty damn stupid this November, Adam.
Adam Jacobi…what, are you Amish?
Suggestion: go build some furniture and quit pretending to know something about football.
FYI: Our coach is better than yours. Our QB is better than yours. Our RB’s, WR’s, and TE’s are better than yours. Our Oline is better than yours. Our Defense is better than yours. Our football team is better than yours. Right now, next year, forever. In all things related to football, Nebraska > Iowa.
NU doesn’t offer players that Iowa crows about signing. Our table scraps are better than your main course. Nebraska takes what they want from your state, and your football program. If NU wants something that Iowa wants, Iowa doesn’t get it, or can’t keep it. This is consistent with what you will see on the football field when our teams meet each fall.
NU joining the Big Ten is Iowa’s worst nightmare. We know it. You know it. Your coach knows it. Your football program is in a state of panic behind closed doors realizing that their chances for a big ten title just went from “slim” to “none”…but you all come here and talk Iowa greatness.
Well, talk is cheap. Especially talk from an Iowan.
Realize your place in the pecking order, and have some respect for your betters.
I don't know.
I think DRUGS might have made a fake account.
by Carfino'sWay on Jul 6, 2011 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I thought that was possible at first
but DRUGS would have made it funny.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Jul 6, 2011 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
NO GOD! NO! GOD, PLEASE NO! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
We can use this one.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Pantherhawk, is that you?
"West Texas seems to be full of fake boobs providing a comfortable shade for well-developed pot bellies" - Lycurgus (06/24/2011)
by BStylin Hawkye on Jul 6, 2011 4:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Love it...
I live in Iowa so I have to hear this trash every single day. It only gets worse as Football season approaches. Iowa fans have no understanding of what a decorated program is. They have been the Red Headed Step Child of their Conference their entire lives. They have always felt inferior to Nebraska and this is their way to make a ‘statement.’ Which is hilarious. They have no sense of reality.
You’ll get this type of comment A WHOLE HELL OF A LOT….. “Well, we would have won if….” <—— Hey Iowa fan, that statement never works. If you have always had a hell of a program, you wouldn’t start off ANY sort of statement with, “Well, we would have won if…”
Get a life. See you in Lincoln.
If we are the 'Red Headed Step Child' of our Conference....
Wouldn’t that make Nebraska the “Red Helmeted Run Aways” of theirs?
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 5:21 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
A "decorated program" means exactly 0 automatic wins in 2011.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 6, 2011 10:48 PM CDT up reply actions
NO
We know exactly what a decorated program is.
Minnesota has SIX National Championships and 18 Conference Championships. We bow to the greatness that is the Minnesota Golden Gophers, and I think you should show them some respect too.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 8, 2011 11:59 AM CDT up reply actions
The Hawkeyes run a zone blocking system.
There is no ‘off-tackle’ play.
But don’t let that stop you, please, do go on.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions
You're right...
…so tell Kirky to do himself and his program and fans a favor and get rid of Ken O’Keefe along with Norm Parker. They’re old news my man. You’ll never become elite until they BOTH are gone.
If you don’t see it, which I know you won’t, you’re a Hawkeye fan, you’ll never become elite. Mark my words.
Hi! Let me introduce you to my good friend 'BCS Bowl Victory'.
Clearly, you haven’t met.
Now go hang out with your good friend ‘76-39’. I hear that Kansas introduced you.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions
By the way...
…what’s with the 1 game KU beat us in?!? Seriously?? That’s exactly my point when it comes to you Iowa fans. You all bring up the most random sh** and it has no bearing on the conversation. Seriously?!? And what happened last year, or the year before, or the year before that?!? C’mon man!!!!
Because obviously, you need an
assaulting, player-berating, adulterous, macarena-dancing psychopath as your defensive coordinator to have success, right?
/No thanks, I’d prefer to keep Norm Parker.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 6, 2011 10:54 PM CDT up reply actions
From a Penn State fan
all of a sudden, I cannot wait to wear black and gold on black Friday.
Fire Dan Snyder
How many conference titles has Pelini won?
And was Roger Craig the last good Iowa recruit you “stole from us.”
By the way, how did the Nebraska table scraps do against Iowa State the last three years?
You want to talk about how great your offense is, but how many points did that awe-inspiring offense rain down on Washington in the Holiday Bowl?
If you can honestly answer these questions, then perhaps you can honestly admit to yourself that Nebraska is at best a co-favorite with Mich State in the Legends division, and at worst will struggle to go than .500 in Big Ten play in 2011.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 6, 2011 10:47 PM CDT up reply actions
That's awesome...
…let me introduce you to an 8-5 Season when you had ‘National Title’ hopes. Wait a second, you Iowa fans have ‘National Title’ hopes every single year. I’m pretty sure that’s not possible if you don’t EVEN HAVE A NATIONAL TITLE.
In 1958 Iowa won a National Title. Great Job, football historian.
Seriously, how can you manage to fail at trolling?
Once again, 76-39
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions
in all fairness
This title doesn’t count to anyone outside of Iowa, as nobody really recognizes it…
by Fake Pelini on Jul 7, 2011 8:15 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
We know it.
But it is our technical refutation of the argument that “Iowa has no national titles.”
Also, there are some people that feel like Iowa might have been the best team in the land at the end of that year, because we won the Rose Bowl 38-13 , while LSU “only” beat Clemson 7-0 in the Sugar Bowl.
Then again, Iowa lost a game, so maybe not.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 7, 2011 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Buddy...
That’s not even considered a National Title by anybody but Iowa fans. You’ve got to be kidding me.
We got smoked by KU that year. Absolutely. ( I admit when we get beat unlike any Loss Iowa has ever had….Iowa fan = Let’s dream up of an excuse)
Then explain this record to me…Historian… 26-12-3. And what?
Iowa Fans.....
and the only poll that ranked teams after bowl games in 1958.
Thus the Grantland Rice Trophy.
But don’t let that stop you, please, do continue.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 5:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Had to copy and paste just for you... oh and I provided the link so it's much easier for you.
By the way uneducated Iowa fan…
…the 1958 National Title from the AP (where real National Titles are given) went to LSU. They were 11-0. Oh and you’re beloved Hawkeyes were 8-1-1.
Keep dreaming…you have ZERO.
The AP didn't rank teams after bowl games in 1958
The Football Writers’ Association of America did.
Thus the ‘Grantland Rice Trophy’.
But why dwell in the distant past?
One day you might be able to get a BCS bowl victory, or beat Washington, or go to the Orange Bowl as often as the Hawkeyes has since they have been eligible.
Don’t worry, Nebraska may become something you can be confident in, instead of demonstrating such an inferiority complex. Look on the bright side, they are finally in the Big Boy Conference!
I know I am proud of ya!!!
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 5:56 PM CDT up reply actions
You proved my point...
… It’s not a National Title. Case Closed.
Inferiority Complex? ‘Iowa Fan’ is in the Dictionary next to those words. You just don’t like to admit it because you’ve always been in the ‘Big Boy Conference!’ Yayy!! Good for you!!!
Yeah, one day we might get a BCS Bowl victory…I hope so. You can at least claim 1 Orange Bowl win. :) Oh, yeah, I hope we do beat Washington for the 2nd time in 3 tries. Heck, you guys barely beat Missouri! Congrats!! You didn’t happen to catch that Mizzou/NU game in Lincoln earlier in the year did you? Didn’t think so.
And ‘as often as the Hawkeyes’ Seriously? Do I even have to reply to that statement?
If you get a chance to come to Lincoln after Thanksgiving. I’ll be on the NW 19 Yard Line, First Row. You’ll finally realize what a real stadium is like. GBR.
Nebraska isn't even in the same league as Minnesota.
They have six national titles.
Get ready to be demolished my Minnesota. You don’t stand a chance. Your team has so many failings on the field that I can’t begin to point to one that you’ll accept as relevant, so I’ll just say “You suck.”
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 8, 2011 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
By the way
Doesn’t that just SUCK that you have to call a so called ‘National Title’ a Grantland Rice Trophy?!?!? HA HA HA HA.
All FIVE of ours are outright National Championship Trophies. Man, that’s rough.
Funny.
Nebraska only has 4 AP titles.
Strange how the credibility of the AP changes.
Seriously,
1) If you are going to troll ‘seriously’, you need to learn more about football.
2) Don’t ‘troll seriously’. It’s boring.
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 6:02 PM CDT up reply actions
There's 5
National Titles. ‘Seriously’ get an education. See you in Lincoln Clown.
By the way….did you forget to reply to my 26-12-3 All Time Record? That’s what I thought.
Only 4 AP.
Therefor, logically, you’re own argument……….wait, what am I doing?
76-39
LOL
Hawks for the win and falafels for the vagina
by DoYouLoveHawksorHate'Merica? on Jul 6, 2011 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Click on it...
… I know you want to…
http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2010/08/repeat_after_me_winning_back-t.html
Five? That's one less than Minnesota has.
Now THAT’S a program with some relevance.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 8, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
By the way #2
Don’t get National Title and Football Writers Association of America mixed up in the same sentence. They’re not even in the same League.
By the way uneducated Iowa fan...
…the 1958 National Title from the AP (where real National Titles are given) went to LSU. They were 11-0. Oh and you’re beloved Hawkeyes were 8-1-1.
Keep dreaming…you have ZERO.
Hey SUH
you want something less random and more current?
Last year, you gave up 41 points to Okie State.
Last time Iowa gave up 41 points to anyone? 2004.
Blackshirts look sooooooooo tough, though.
I can actually kind of understand why you stop over here to BHGP to talk football. It appears that about 7 people comment frequently over at Corn Nation. Why? Because Nebraska football is in decline, and may continue to be in the new conference.
By the way, if Nebraska was really such a decorated program, why did they run off from Texas’s aggression? I would think a football program as wonderfully vital as NU’s might be able to, you know, stay in a conference and occasionally win a conference title. Or, maybe not, if you’re jNU-L.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 6, 2011 11:03 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm not defending SUH90 in any way shape or form here
I’m just defending my beloved huskers:
I think B10 teams will have a harder time with NU’s defense than NU will ave with B10 denfenses, as avidenced by Mich St – Alabama, and Wisc – TCU.
We know MSU – Bama was a trainwreck, but before the rosebowl, Wisconsin was just rollin B10 denfenses until they played TCU. And don’t give me this “if they run the ball” nonsense before if a grand total of ~10 plays turned out different (half vs texas, half vs OU) NU wouldve been in the national title game.
by Fake Pelini on Jul 7, 2011 8:27 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I watched that UT game as I was on a cruise ship that sailed out of Galveston and that was the feed we had.
I wouldn’t have watched if I wasn’t watching the crawl for the Iowa score. Because I was an impartial observer, I wanted both teams to lose, I can say It would have taken A LOT more than around 10 plays to win that game. I can’t remember his name, I did for longer than I thought I would, but that one WR couldn’t catch the ball to save his life. It wasn’t just him UNL just didn’t look like they came to play that day.
BTW, thank you for playing nicer. Comments like this that are constructive and can then be discussed are a lot better than obnoxious and repetitious trolly ones. And here I thought you were bad before SUH and B1G Red showed up. I see it can get worse.
by Carfino'sWay on Jul 7, 2011 10:14 AM CDT up reply actions
his name is niles paul. WR, dropped 438 TD passes during that texas game.
Maybe 439, I lost count after the 2nd quarter.
If he had caught only 2 of those balls, that would be 27-20 NU instead of 20-13 Texas.
Then we have 8 plays left to use with OU and aTm, and we’d play Auburn instead of Washington. But I’m done with hypotheticals, that’s the Iowa thing to do…now I’m pissed just thinking about texas…those stupid cheating mackbrownasslickingcowtippingmothereffershefferfuckersjhdfhjghyuiahasqw18
by Fake Pelini on Jul 7, 2011 12:52 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Yes, that was who it was.
He needed some stick’em or something. That was embarassing.
I think every fanbase does hypotheticals, maybe not UNL I guess. You were playing nice don’t take your frustrations with UT out on us.
I can understand that viewpoint.
And I expect Nebraska’s offense to do well against the defenses of Indiana, Minnesota, Illinois, probably Michigan, probably Purdue, and maybe even Iowa.
But, I don’t fear Nebraska’s defense. Iowa’s defense has shown, over several years, that they will avoid getting roasted. Nebraska has not (even though they’ve had some great players and a very good defensive year in 2009?)
I’m not guaranteeing that Iowa’s offense will put up 30 or 40 on Nebraska, but we do have some good weapons/tools on offense (Coker, McNutt, slightly more than half of a very good offensive line, some talented yet under-hyped TEs, and Vandenburg could be quite good if plays like he did in his last start [2009 OSU game]). Our defense might not be as great as it has been the last few years, but we still have some playmakers (Daniels, Binns, Hyde, Prater).
I just feel that Nebraska should do their talking on the field, considering they lost 3 out of 4 in pretty low scoring fashion at the end of last year, and you’re coming from a conference that has a slight reputation for not being defensively supreme. And yes, Iowa should also do their talking on the field, but this is an Iowa blog, so I can’t get too upset if some people here want to “let their superlatives get away from them.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 7, 2011 1:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Just a little editing
Vandenburg’s last start was Minnesota in ’09 and it was pretty forgettable.
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
You're already regressing to woulda coulda shoulda? That didn't take long.
" if a grand total of ~10 plays turned out different (half vs texas, half vs OU) NU wouldve been in the national title game"
But don’t let anyone say that if Iowa and Nebby played that Iowa would have won. It’s all lies!
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 8, 2011 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions
oh wow
Hey, do you guys know anything about football? Seriously, I don’t think there is a general public anywhere that knows less about what good football looks like, unless maybe it’s Indiana.
Nebraska is better at every single position than Iowa, sideline to sideline.
Nebraska has better coaches than Iowa.
Nebraska has a better strength program. Nebraska is THE strength program.
Nebraska has better facilities, etc.
More importantly:
2011 Nebraska > 2011 Iowa.
The Friday after turkey day, Nebraska is going to leave Iowa’s football team wadded up into a ball in a corner of Memorial Stadium sucking their thumbs, completely unable to score, or even get consecutive first downs until the 3rd quarter. You’re facing an NFL defense this year, fellas, and It Ain’t Gonna Be Pretty.
And, as your offense struggles to move the ball, your slow defense is going to get really tired, and eventually shredded by speed that you’ve not competed against. Just shredded, by 6’6 athetic 310 pound pulling guards, the fastest and most athletic TE in the country, and a quarter back that has the fastest 10 and 20 yard time ever recorded at NU.
Not to mention the freakish athletes from Texas, Florida, and California at the other skill position slots.
And then, there’s Memorial Stadium.
NU 57
Iowa 0
I need whatever it is you are smoking
if you think that Nebraska is going to beat Iowa 57-0 this year.
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
Yeah, but you forgot to mention that after your fantasy is over, we get to go home to a real state
while you’ll still be stuck in the state of delusion Nebraska.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jul 8, 2011 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
He's already been banned.
You can quit poking at the troll.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Seriously
I don’t know a single NU fan that is concerned at all about the Iowa game. Not one. We are more worried about Northwestern and Michigan state than you. I have never met anyone anywhere outside the state of Iowa that thinks your team is legit. If you beat someone good, or halfway decent, its like “holy cow, they actually beat someone that might have been ok. that’s nice.”
Bottom line: Nebraskans and Knowledgeable football fans in general thinks that Iowa is a joke, and so does everyone else everywhere. Just stop pretending that you have a good football program.
I mean seriously, NU hasn’t played a game and we’re favored in Vegas to win the big ten championship this year….and that’s with 1/2 a team, basically. Once the beast is unleashed on offense the rest of the conference is going to poop down their leg and start thinking of excuses as Nebraska convincingly steamrolls the big ten flat like the puff pastries that they are.
Have you met our backup QB's?
NU’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd string QB’s, 1st string RB and 2nd string WR are better QB’s than anyone on Iowa’s roster.
NU didn’t even offer the best player on your team, who also happens to be from Nebraska, and furthermore he wouldn’t sniff the field if he played for Nebraska.
This sh#t just has Nebraska written all over it.
Meth:
Big Red, you either need to stop doing meth, or do so much that we don’t have to hear from you.
You lost a bowl game to a team that went 5-4 in the Pac 10, lost to Ariz State, lost to BYU, beat Cal by 3, and beat Wash State by one TD.
How big a talent disparity can there really be? I’m looking at a football magazine right now, and Nebraska hasn’t had a recruiting class ranked higher than 15 in the last 6 years. In that same time, you guys have never finished higher than #14 in the final polls. Face it, you guys just aren’t elite anymore.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Jul 7, 2011 12:41 AM CDT up reply actions
Please do not feed the trolls.
They can no longer respond.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Can you go ahead and just pre-emptively ban
biggy84? Let’s be honest, the day he wanders over here will be a dark one for BHGP.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Man i can't wait for Thanksgiving day...
Write down all the names you have had to ban so far, they might come in handy after the talk is played out on the field.! A big Iowa > Nebraska post would be great after the win!
Football, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
by Put Down the Haterade on Jul 12, 2011 3:30 PM CDT reply actions
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